Ken Cuccinelli

One of the things Mason was concerned about, and it came out of the Stuart era that led into the Glorious Revolution and the right to bear arms being broadly spread out, was the Stuarts’ use of select militias.

And famously, Mason said, we are the militia. They are the whole people, and that was never disputed in that time period and the Commonwealth didn’t dispute that.

I started, particularly here at the 250th anniversary [of Virginia’s constitution being adopted], by reflecting on sections one, two, and three of the Declaration of Rights, which were adopted at the same time as Section 13.

All of the Second Amendment case law you’re familiar with, Heller, Bruen, et cetera, Miller, is merely persuasive authority.

That means no one has had a legal dispute that will turn on the questions that this case will turn on before.

DHS will not tolerate forced labor of any kind in U.S. supply chains.

Both the integrity of and the confidence in our elections, absolutely.

Technically, yes, but it has been made so thoroughly cumbersome and expensive that it has proven impractical for States to use it.

The answer is no. I was never ordered or asked to do that. He respected that answer.

No, that the Department of Homeland Security did not have the authority to seize voting machines, given the set of facts as I understood them.

America's elections are more secure for having 51 systems than if we had one Washington takeover and one system.

I would like to make a point that is rarely discussed from that perspective because the Federal Government does not have really any role in the execution of elections.

It is why it is appropriate for Governor Inslee to make that decision. It is why it is appropriate for Governor Cuomo to make those decisions and not for us sitting here in Washington to impose those decisions.

There is no question that the use of that authority has bought us time.

We implore you to reverse this decision so that countless children and their families can continue to apply for deferred action. For some children, this is a matter of life and death.

You are not building a policy. You are telling us to implement a policy.

I did think it was a mistake to implement this on a retroactive basis.

I would not do anything contrary to the law. If I understood something to be contrary to the law, I wouldn't do it.

They're in denial of reality.

We can handle this. We don't need to institute special considerations, things like MPP that's being worked on with Mexico and expanded.

Absolutely not. If you look at the rest of their filing, you'll also see that they say there isn't a problem basically on the border.

Lives are being lost, detention facilities are unsustainably overcrowded, and illegal aliens with frivolous claims continue to overwhelm our system.

Union leadership continues to play games while the border crisis intensifies.

This demonstrates the complaining union leaders are choosing to deny reality.